On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Ahmed Kamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm admining around 30 RHEL-WS workstations for electronics CAD users. > Currently, everything is manual. I have to update third party packages and > settings (think printers, flash player upgrades ... etc) manually. I am > starting to hate that :D I know a potential solution is to use something > like puppet to manage everything. However, I am interested to see if anyone > is using some other way to manage such a scenario. Perhaps pushing a central > "golden image" to all clients? perhaps PXE booting a fixed image ?
If the limit is likely to stay near this number I'd install them all via a common kickstart, and then have an "alpha server" on which I'd set up2date to retain the downloaded packages. I'd then export the cache via FTP and glob update/freshen/install all other servers against it. Depending on what you deem necessary from an "update frequency" standpoint you can add a common cron job to run updates... I do this now with things like extra packages and printer configs - may take some work get the kickstart tweaked as you require, but once done it's a cakewalk. Additionally, I write a couple specialized scripts to run serial commands on subsets of machines, and there's a few projects out there for "cluster shell" functionality (more parallel than serial execution) that may offer some desired functionality. If you expect to grow beyond 50 or so units, or foresee a lot of skew between them, a solution like puppet or RH Satellite are likely in order. _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
